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Acquistions – Someone had an idea

eLearning 24-7

The initial person who thought buying SumTotal was a great idea (initially it was) and then dumped it for a fortune to Skillsoft (another great idea), which in turn was someone at Skillsoft thinking this was a great idea, which turned out to be false and was a factor in Skillsoft going into bankruptcy due to the albatross known as SumTotal.

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How Do You Define Digital Learning?

CLO Magazine

Essentially, embed “just enough learning” into your digital work environment, and offer employees access to: An easy-to-use portal that recommends content and shows what other employees use to learn in their business function. Vendors like Lynda.com, Skillsoft, Grovo, Udacity, Udemy, NovoEd, SkillShare and others offer this.

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How to Make Elearning Accessible: Insights from the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

The Learning Dispatch

Tyler argues that the primary owner of color contrast is the visual designer (although the business owner may have input through a marketing style guide). She showed the necessity of using plain language (including how to use Flesch-Kincaid Readability Score) in your content. The test cases can be cross-referenced against the WCAG 2.0

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How to Make Elearning Accessible: Insights from the 2017 CSUN Assistive Technology Conference

The Learning Dispatch

Tyler argues that the primary owner of color contrast is the visual designer (although the business owner may have input through a marketing style guide). She showed the necessity of using plain language (including how to use Flesch-Kincaid Readability Score) in your content. The test cases can be cross-referenced against the WCAG 2.0

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12 Ways to Get the Most Out of Your Authoring Tool

Knowing what you need from an eLearning authoring tool can be hard, especially when there are so many options on the market. gomo’s new ebook aims to save you time and hassle by identifying 12 must-have authoring tool features.

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Learning In Practice Awards 2012

CLO Magazine

The ninth annual Chief Learning Officer Learning In Practice Awards recognized learning leaders, vendors and organizations that have made a substantive and measurable change in business, vision, strategic alignment or leadership. Business Impact Division 1. Business Impact Division 2. Silver: SMU Cox School of Business.

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What you need 2 know: 3rd Party Content

eLearning 24-7

Then – Client contacts their new LMS vendor or current one, says they need courses in Business, Safety, Software. Some may be free (TED) or some MOOCs, others are fee-based (Skillsoft, Skill Pill, Harvard Business, etc.). . Then and Now. LMS vendor identifies possible options. has as partners and select the content.

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